The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-12-22
BACK FROM TEXAS.
A Tennessee Damsel Kicks up Sand and
Sloshes Mud in Texas.

| By MISS JOE.
l have just returned from Texas
where / spent elk weeks looking af-
ter our Texas prodigals. / found
quite number in Grayson county !;
but on account of the sand that
they eat, which blows into every
thing, during those sand storms, l
found them with too much grit to
return to the land of Canaan
Tennessee While in Grayson
county l became terribly home
sick, but in less than three weeks
got grit enough into my giz-
gard to venture further west.
Those sand storms are SO resting to
The eyes! Your eyes soon become
SO full of sand that ocular move
ment is at once arrested, and a
mans religion severely tested. Not
withstanding foods, sand-sto.ms
and northers, | wendell my way
through far-stretching, cattle Gov
cred, eye s,raining prairies, thence
over cross-timbefs, the home OF
the trantulas and .centipedes-
passing many important towns and
villages. till we landed in the lovely
little city Of Fort Worth, grand
railroad center, real fast place.
After stop-oyer of "a hours, we
bid adieu to this money spending
place Of western pride, and forty
miles of fast travel over Fl. Worth
and Denver r. R. landed us in De-
aatur, the home of many Tennessee
prodigals. Here l was at once ar
rested by our noted and highly es-
teemed Irish poet, M. Dryer, who
put me into livery rig beside his
better half-a dear, good. sweet,
christian woman of twenty-six
summers. She is amiable, grace.
ful, well educated, in fact, highly
accomplished-a neice of John C.
Lester of Pulaski, she is fully able
to cope with the poet, notwith-
standing his Irish wit. Thus es-
corted by the queen of Mikes west
ern home l was received into his |
with such royal honors
that had to pinch myself to know
whether was President Cleveland.
OF course / like Texas around |
about Decatur, and especially De-
catur. We were glad to end Mr..
Dryer getting along so well; but
Mike, you know, will make money
any where, even In Texas. After
nearly a week very pleasantly
spent under the hospitable roof of
Prof. Dwyer, we bid adieu to Deca-
tur with all her Tennessee prodi-
gals. We are going to leave our
prodigals in and around Decatur,
Texas, just because it favors Pulas-
XII in some respects. We stopped
off on our return from Wise county
in Whitesboro long enough to get
little more sand in our gizzard to
enable US to tackle the abominable
black mud of Fannin, Delta, Ellis,
and other counties. 1t rained hard
on US for several days which ena-
bled US to behold Texas mud in. all
its native sweetness and abomina-
BILE loveliness. At last we landed
at Ben Franklin. Here we left the
railroad and struck sail on a gulf OF
mud. We soon discovered that
Texas mud in not very navigable,
owing to the stickency thereof. l
wrote TO my dearest while in Gray
son thar l was not much stuck on
Texas, but from this point / could
write that I was considerable, yes
deeply, stuck. All people in the
hlack mud ought to get to heaven.
After lifetime OF mud-kicking
and chigger-scratching. they ought
to enjoy season of rest, sweet rect.
l find that dentist do we'll here, for
teeth don't last long on Texas raw
hides. We strike a few old COWS
here in the butcher shops from the
toughnesss thereof one would think |
they had escaped old JACOBS ranch.
If Laps. McCord would lend me his
newspaper, the dear old CITIZEN, l
would try to tell some of the disad- |
vantages of living in Texas. once
thought from the stew got the En-
his editor in, that l might possibly |
have exaggerated some. But Oh
myi The half has not been told. II
the Ennis editor thinks 80 just let
him hop to me and I'll clean his
socks for him-if he will send them
TO Tennessee where the water will
wash and pick the chiggers off be-
fore he sends them. My article is
becoming to lenthy, so give me
your sympathy and prayers and l
will try to prize out in nv next.